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I'm usually one of the guys constantly upgrading and swapping parts just trying to keep up with you faster drivers, and I do like driving a smooth car, but too many upgrades is what happened to our classic sports car and Trans Am classes. I'm all for improvement to the handling of these cars, I suppose the issue is Motors.  It appears that Fly and Scalextric get their motors from the same supplier, at least they both show "black stripe" motors as 'Factory" replacement motors. I personally prefer the smooth power band of the H&R Hawk motor. 
  I pulled the label off of an older Scalextric "Sport"motor the other day, it had a black stripe underneath it. Go figure. If we are considering upgrading axles are we also considering upgrading wheels? Fly wheels won't fit Slot it axles. Another point to consider, many of the Fly cars now have 3D chassis available that take slot it pods. Rules, rules, rules.
I'm just here for the thrill of the chase, or is it Goose hunting?

That looks simple enough, is there a particular chip you recommend? Or is there just one Scaley chip? As far as the body work, I have a Dremel and I'm not afraid to use/abuse it.

http://northwesttruescaleracers.com/index.cfm    All of the specs for the different classes are here. All 1/24 scale.

I have both, the professor motor seems to be tougher regarding getting hooked up wrong, the DS on the other hand is much smoother as far as driving the cars and is a much better feeling controller. That being said several of us have had to send them back to get brake pods replaced, mostly due to hooking them up wrong even for just a moment. Goose seems to have fried one running the older cars with the heavy voltage draw. DiFalco makes one now for about the same price. I've never had one but have never seen any bad press about the product. Rico has one of the older higher end Difalcos that he likes quite a bit.

Yes Bob, thanks, Chris and I had a great time.

Good luck with that. :-)

That's a tough time to try to get to Vancouver from Tigard, but I'll give it a try. Keep us posted.

That particular car has an odd size rim, the center flange is 6.5mm wide, most of my wider tires are either made for a 6.mm flange or are too low profile for the 250GTO.I ordered a couple of tires with a 7mm flange from SCC to give it another go. I'll save the stock ones for you to set into a mold.

Not me Goose,
I have a few front motored cars that I purchased just because I liked the looks of them, but their handling leaves something to be desired. I'll probably go with something in a sidewinder configuration. I have the hacked on Ferrari 250Lm (poor thing). I don't think I need another GT40 (sorry Chris). I'm leaning towards the blue Porsche 906, but it bugs the heck out of me to pay an extra $25 just to get something other than white.
Quick question though, we are talking about Scalextric and Fly cars that ran in Le Mans '71 and earlier, so does that include the Scalextric Corvette from that era? I know it is front motored, but I've never ran one and don't know if they are as clumsy as the rest. They look nice though.

I think that the older Scaleys and Nincos for that matter that have the clamshell type body are a technological oddity that we have the ability to overcome, just in the name of fair play, otherwise we will all be running the same car. That being said my Fly 250Lm has been lowered, altered, parts cut off to fit a pod type chassis long before we discussed this class. After finding and reusing all of the original pieces and rebuilding the body post to get the correct height, I think I might have to invoke the 3.5 rule. That says, that from 3.5 feet away my car looks box stock. At least until I can get another one.

Nope, same car, just a little more tweaking on the old rattle trap.